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T. HSTON.

. PENSE. No. 302,407. Patented July 22, 1884.

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FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302.407,'dated July22,1884.

Application filed December 21, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: j

Be it known that I, THOMAS HUSTON, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, haveinvented a new and useful vFence,of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in stationary felices; and itconsists in constructing a fence oi' posts and rails by allowing one endof each panel of rails to project beyond the post a few inches, andhaving the panels of rails secured on opposite sides of the posts by awire,forming a double loop, and passing from one side to the other u pbetween the projecting ends andthe rails of the adjoining panel.v

The object of my invention is to construct a cheap, durable, andeasily-made fence. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated bythe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view ofone complete and one incomplete panel of my fence, and Fig. 2 is a Viewlooking from above the same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The posts A B C are set in the ground in a straight line and the desireddistance apart. The rails to be used on the fence are placed along theline of the fence on opposite sides of the posts, and one end of thefirst panel is secured to the corner or starting post in any desiredmanner. The other ends of the rails are placed ou the same side ofthe-nextpost, A,while the rails of the next panel, cl, are all placed onthe opposite side. A wire, a, is

. then secured to the bottom of the post A, just under the lower bottomrail of the first panel. The wire is brought around the outside of saidrail, and then stretched across the post under and around the projectingend of the lower rail of the second panel, d. A staple, b, is drivenunder the said rail over the wire, to help hold the rail up and preventthe wire from coming loose around the first rail. From the lower rail,cl', the wire is brought back to the iirst side, and a staple is drivenin the edge of the post just under where the second rail of the firstpanel is to be secured. The said second rail is then raised up and thewire brought around it, passed back to the other side of the post, andstapled just under where the second rail, d', of the second panel is tobe secured. The said rail d is raised up and the wire passed around theend, (as with the other rails,) and then passed back to the irst side,as before, and so on until all the rails have been secured to said post,when the wire is cut at the top of the post and secured by staples,

all as shown. yWhile the projecting ends of 6o each panel are beingwiredup, the other ends are always laid out from the next post, as shownby the top rails, d, and in dotted lines, Fig. 2. When the said ends arebrought back to the post to be wired up, they tighten the wire justsecured to the other ends on the last wired-up post. The spool of wire cis always kept on the same side of the fence. The wire is always securedto the side of the posts next to the starting-post or corner of thefence, as shown.

As thus constructed my fence will be cheap, easily made, and durable,and it will present a neat appearance.

Having thus described my invention ,I claim the following and desire tosecure the saine by Letters Patent:

In a fence, the combination, with the posts, of railpanelssecuredalternately on opposite sides of the posts and projecting beyondthe latter, as described, and -a binding-wire secured at one end to thetop of the post, passed from one side to the other of the post, to belooped around the rails of two adjacent panels alternately, and securedat its lower end, sub-` stantially as set forth.

l THOMAS HUSTON. Titnessesz L. H. Il. ELLIS, C. E. HENDEY.

